Tim Scott makes 2024 bid official https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3981949-tim-scott-makes-2024-bid-official/ excerpt: Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) has officially declared himself a candidate for the GOP nomination for president, making him the latest Republican to enter a crowded field that has so far been dominated by former President Trump. Scott filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission on Friday, ahead of an expected formal campaign launch Monday. more
I don’t even know who would bother wasting a single donation on this or waste time working on the campaign.
He's not gonna win. It's trump v desantis everybody else in the republican race is just there for the show
https://www.wsj.com/articles/barack...democrats-2024-race-9400eac?mod=hp_opin_pos_1 Why Barack Obama Attacks Tim Scott A black conservative President would rebut the former President’s racial and political narrative. By The Editorial Board June 19, 2023 at 5:08 pm ET As America’s first black President, Barack Obama entered office with a promise of improving race relations and reducing political discord. Eight years later, rancor was worse as Mr. Obama’s Administration exploited race as a political weapon on voting rules, criminal justice, and preferences for jobs and much more. This explains why the former President is now attacking South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott. Last week Mr. Obama, who doesn’t riff by accident, went after Mr. Scott and Nikki Haley, two of the GOP’s minority candidates for President. “I think there’s a long history of African-American or other minority candidates within the Republican Party who will validate America and say, ‘Everything’s great, and we can all make it.’ I mean, Nikki Haley, I think, has a similar approach,” Obama said on David Axelrod’s podcast. “I’m not being cynical about Tim Scott individually. I am maybe suggesting that the rhetoric of ‘Can’t we all get along’” has to be “undergirded with an honest accounting of our past and our present,” Mr. Obama said. He added that people can be “rightly skeptical” when a Republican, “who may even be sincere in saying, ‘I want us all to live together,’ doesn’t have a plan for how do we address crippling generational poverty that is a consequence of hundreds of years of racism in this society.” Ms. Haley and Mr. Scott both rebutted the former President’s patronizing comments. “There’s no higher compliment than to be attacked by President Obama,” Mr. Scott said. “Whenever the Democrats feel threatened, they pull out—drag out—the former President, have him make some negative comments about someone running, hoping that their numbers go down.” Mr. Scott is right, and it’s worth asking why. You’d think Mr. Obama of all people would be pleased to see minority candidates with serious credentials compete as Republicans for the White House. If both parties compete for the votes of minorities, that could make race less of a polarizing force in American life. But Democrats can’t abide that or it might upset their advantage among minority voters. If Republicans ever broke through to win 20% of the black vote, for example, Republicans would become the majority party. Democrats want to keep racial tensions boiling with accusations about “Jim Crow 2.0” and “systemic racism” lest more minority voters give GOP candidates a hearing. Mr. Scott in particular is a threat because, as he often notes, his life story symbolizes the country’s racial evolution. He has never sugar-coated America’s racist history, noting how he has experienced it in his own life. But he doesn’t use that as an excuse to deny progress. His ideas to reduce poverty are also far better than Mr. Obama’s default to government dependency and failing public schools. Mr. Scott wants to free minorities from union schools and escape poverty by giving them more economic opportunity. Those ideas are a dagger pointed at the heart of the progressive project that sustains a permanent underclass dependent on Democratic welfare programs. That is the real reason Mr. Obama is attacking Mr. Scott and Ms. Haley. Appeared in the June 20, 2023, print edition as 'Why Barack Obama Attacks Tim Scott'.
Tim Scott on Hunter Biden plea deal: ‘Big guy has some explaining to do’ https://thehill.com/homenews/campai...-plea-deal-big-guy-has-some-explaining-to-do/
he just inadvertently killed his Presidential campaign . when responding to a question about the United Auto Workers strike, he cited what he said was the lesson of Ronald Reagan’s firing of federal air traffic controllers. Scott was publicizing his ignorance that UAW workers are not Federal employees like the air traffic controllers. the UAW then filed an unfair labor practice complaint against Scott, saying that as an employer of his presidential campaign staff, his remarks could be seen as intimidating the rights of his campaign workers to organize.
The official Tim Scott Drops out thread. https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/12/politics/tim-scott-ends-presidential-campaign/index.html I am surprised as he seemed to be the candidate that a lot of conservatives including here said that he was their preferred candidate but that didn’t translate into actual support.
